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Hotel Grand Tirana

Ismail Qemali St., 11 Tirana, Albania

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The Pyramid

A travel blog entry by robdelaney

12

... doing. Very frustrating but I did manage to get back to sleep so the next day I wasn’t too bad at all.

Once we woke we showered then I went to get some breakfast. After this we decided to pop to a gym next door for some exercise, which was worth it just to see how run down it was. It seemed like a lot of the equipment was handmade, and instead of metal cable linking the various pulleys and mechanisms together, there were bits of rope which had gone ...

Im wilden Land der Skipetaren

A travel blog entry by hasch

5

... eine Autobahn beginnt, fasst Christa die ersten Eindrücke zusammen: Bettler an der Grenze, Melonenverkäufer auf der Autobahn, Tankstellen und Zu- und Abfahrten - in dem Moment kommt uns ein Polizeiauto als Geisterfahrer entgegen.

Noch ein Wort zu den Tankstellen - es gibt unzählige, total modern und meist mit Restaurant und Hotel - aber äusserst gepflegt und richtig einladend. So was haben wir noch nie gesehen.

Heute dürfte auch Hochzeitstag in Albanien sein: ...

Episode 22

A travel blog entry by overlandlyn2010

5

... Alexander the great. Thus the name Skanderbeg: After the Turks were defeated at Nis he jumped ship, dumped Islam and converted to Roman Catholic. He got the Albanian warlords to join forces and led them to repulse the Turks at many battles as the Turks tried to take over the country. Of 25 battles he fought he only lost 2. Then in 1468 at the age of 63 he died of a fever, probably malaria. After this Albanian resistance crumbled and the Turks took over: ...

ALBANIA-first part

A travel blog entry by vinkor

40

We in Italy have about half million of Albanian immigrants and unfortunately some crimes published in our newspapers and see on tv gave Italians the impression that the Albanians are generally violent and in any case people coming from a very poor country.
After four days of my visit in Albania I can definitely tell that:
- Albania is now a modern country with a lot of villas, modern skyscrapers and highways
- the Albanians are very friendly and kind ...

Waiting waiting waiting on K

A travel blog entry by thebarretts

6

... restaurant however, informed us that we better get moving if we didn’t want to miss our bus! Ugh! We finally made it on the bus and into Tirana. What an experience!

There was no particular sights that we wanted to see in Tirana. In fact, we headed into the capital of Tirana for the sole purpose of meeting Karinya who was flying over from Rome and spending the week travelling with us. So we spent the night wandering around ...